Alexander cochard and joseph gang



(No Model.)

A. OOOHARD &'J. GANO.

SHUTTER FASTENER.

Patented July 5, 1887.

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-N. PETERS Phnmunw hur. Washington, 0. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT @rricn.

ALEXANDER COOHARD AND JOSEPH GANO, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SHUTTER-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 365,795, dated July 5,1887.

Application filed November 11,1586.

To ctZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, ALEXANDER COOHARD and JOSEPH GANO, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Window Blind and Shutter Fastener, of which the following isa full, clear, and

ted within the blind or shutter are used, the

one lever-hook serving to engage with a fastening on the window-sill and the other with a fastening in the wall to hold the shutter, &c., closed or open, and saidlever-hooks being so constructed and fitted that no manipulation of the outside leve1'-hook,whe11 the shutter, (he, is closed, will have any releasing action upon the inside or sill lever-hook, thus preventing the shutter, &c., being opened from the outside, but the construction admitting of the inside lever-hook being used to disengage the outside one from its engagement with the fastening in the wall when the shutter is thrown back or open.

Our invention consists in certain novel constructions and combinations of the details of such a window blind or shutter fastener and of the fixed fastenings with which it engages, substantially as hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims, and whereby certain advantages, as specified, are obtained.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 represents a top View of the fastener as engaged with the window-sill fastening and showing the wall-fastening detached. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section showing the shutter as applied to a window blind or shutter and as engaged with the fastening in the window-sill, said shutter, &c., and sill only being shown in part, and said figure also showing a side view of the wall nail or fastening detached. Fig. 3 is a transverse section upon the line as 00 in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a transverse section of the cylinder or case of the fastening; Fig. 5, a face view of a detachable face-plate used upon the outer end of the cyl- Serial No. 218,581. (No model.)

inder or case; and Fig. 6, a side view of the wall-fastening under a modified construction.

A indicates the shutter, which may either be in the form of a slatted hinged blind or in the form of a close shutter.

B is the window sill against and within which the shutter closes when drawn to.

O is the metal cylinder or case of the fastening, having a fast flange, 71,- on its inner end, and fitted to its place in the shutter by simply boring a hole through the latter for the body ofthe case to fitsnugly within. A detachable outside face-plate, D, is afterward secured to the shutter over or against the outer end of the case. Holes for screws may be made in both the flange b and face-plate D to hold the case and face-plate to their places.

E is the inside or sill engaging leverhoolr, and F the outside or wall engaging leverhook, both fitted to independently and vertically rock upon a cross pin or pivot, 0, within the case O. The lever-hook E is constructed at its pivoted end with a projecting lip, d, that serves, when pressing said lever-hoot: down, to bear under and lift the other lever-hook, F, from its engagement with the fastening in the wall when the shutter is thrown back or open, but the outside lever-hook, F, has no corresponding or releasing action upon the sill leverhook E when the shutter is closed, as it rests when down upon the lower marginal surface ofa slot, 6, in the face-plate D, and any upward movement of it has no effect upon the lever-hook E, as in other shutter fastenings of like character hereinbefore referred to. These lever-hooks E and F are self-engaging by gravity, with their respective fastenings, when closing to or throwing back the shutter; but to give them a more lively action and to prevent their accidental disengagement a springis applied to hold them down. The use of a more Spring for this purpose is not new and it might be dispensed with; but when a spring is used,

then we propose to construct it in the form of a flat metal saddle-like one, G, with its two ends arranged to bear down on both leverhooks, and to enter the same from the outer end of the case 0 in and along an openended slot, f, in the upper portion of said case, the opposite side margins of the body of the spring sliding along and resting within grooves g g,

in the opposite side margins of the slot f. This not only forms a simple spring for both leverhooks, but it may be readily taken out when broken or out of order and another spring be put in its place without removing the fastening or disturbing its other or working parts. teat, h, upon the lever-hook F serves to keep said spring from working out endwise.

The case 0 is cut away to form a channel, i,

on its under side, which registers with an aperture, k, in the face-plate D, in order that rain or moisture entering the case may read ily run off, and thus the fastening be relieved. and protected against rust, Sac.

The ICVQPhOOk E may or may not have a pull-piece, Z, on it for drawing the shutter to, accordingly as the shutter is a close or slatted one. Both lever-hooks E F are formed with arrow-head noses at for engagement, respectively, with fixed hook or nail fastenings I J in the window-sill and wall, the heads of said fastenings being each made with an openended slot, n, to receive the portions of the lever-hooks immediately in rear of the arrowhead noses m within them. Tl1e sill-fastening I is in the form of a straight nail having a slotted head, as described, in line with its shank; but the wall-fastening J is in hook-nail form with its slotted head at right angles to the shank or portion of the shank adjacent to said head, as shown in Fig. 2. XVhen the shutter, however, is applied to the window of a brick building, it will be desirable to construct the hook-nail fastening J, which goes into the wall to hold the shutter open,with both an upper and lower head having open-ended slots n in them, and to crank the shank of said fastening, as at 0, Fig. 6, so that by reversing said fastening J to adapt it to joints in the wall it may be brought in proper line for the lever-hook F to engage with it, or there may be any number of such fastenings having greater and lesser crooks in their shanks to meet such emergency and from which selection may be made to suit.

The dotted lines in Fig. 2 represent the lever-hook F in the position it occupies when raised to disengage it from the wall-fastening, and the lever-hook E both as lowered to effect such disengagement of the lever-hook F and as raised for disengagement from the sill-fastof the lever-hooks E F, provided with arrowhead engaging noses or ends m, and the fixed hook or nail fastenings I J, having open-ended slots n in their heads, substantially as specified.

3. In a shutter-fastening, the combination, withthe outer lever-hook, F, having an arrowhead engaging endor nose, m, of the reversible wall-fastening J, having a crook, 0, in its shank and provided with double heads having open-ended slots n in them, essentially as described.

ALEXANDER OOGHARD.

JOSEPH GANO. Witnesses:

RICHARD MEIsTER, JACOB MEISTER. 

